Posted on 06/17/2008 11:56:51 AM PDT by PROCON
PANJIM, JUNE 16 (Agencies) — Manmade chemicals have damaged the ozone layer of the upper atmosphere that shields Earth from the harmful effects of the sun’s ultraviolet rays, each summer creating a hole over the South Pole that expands to nearly the size of Antarctica. But in 1996, an international treaty banned the chemical refrigerants and propellants (known as CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons), and the hole has been shrinking. Scientists predict it may stop forming by the end of this century. But that’s not necessarily good news. A new study published in ‘Science’ says that the closing of the ozone hole may affect the flow of winds known as the westerlies around Antarctica, which impact everything from the extent of sea ice to the location of deserts in the Southern Hemisphere, and thereby accelerate global warming.
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ozone hole shrinking? I see that as a problem, as my opinion is that the ozone hole is a chimney, allowing pollutants out of the atmosphere and out into space...
Ping!
Does that mean we should all start using spray-on deodorant again?
First an open ozone hole was bad... now a closed ozone hole is bad. Can’t these idiot scientists make up their minds?
Thank you, H.A.R.P.! Chemtrails don’t help, either.
Global Warming has become a null phrase to me. Therefore, I see no problem with the ozone hole closing.
Wow! For a second there I thought they were refering to one of my favorite bars.
To summarize:
There is a whole in the ozone - we are all going to die.
The whole in the ozone is closing - we are going all to to die.
Actually, my scientist brother tells me that all the sun spots have disappeared, which is a bad thing. He’s predicting global cooling, so get out your overcoats—LOL!
Now that's funny! :-)
I have been advocating this for years, assuming you really fall for the notion that CO2 presents the gravest danger to our existence. Easiest best solution. We can go back to having big hair and start to drive big trucks again.
Well, one thing is for sure. I won’t do any sunbathing in Antarctica any more.
“There’s absolutely nothing that anyone can do - or don’t do - that won’t f$#@ up everything”
That’s the idea. The left is very scary, here’s an example:
“Can’t these idiot scientists make up their minds?”
They need to get their heads out of there own “ozone holes!”
More bad news about our environment.
It must be those damned Chinese Communists who haven't given up their aerosol sprays! No. Wait. It's something else isn't it?
Oh, I know. It's greenhouse gases.
(I think I'll go out and hug a tree or do something obscene to it.)
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